“If you’re a conservative woman and believe in small government, then Barack Obama is your candidate because he’s keeping the government out of the decisions that should remain between you and God and you and your own conscience.” Those words are from a new ad from the Obama campaign–really–centered on women’s “rights.” In the ad, several self-described Republican women explain why, for the first time, they’re crossing the aisle to vote for Barack Obama: social issues.
Many of the women in the ad seem to misunderstand what the term “small government” means. Several mention the issue of birth control, now mandated by ObamaCare to be provided to women through their health insurance plans. This is the exact opposite of “small government” in action. The opposition to this provision to ObamaCare isn’t that Republicans or conservatives don’t believe in women taking birth control and wish to prevent them from doing so. Opponents of the provision are believers in the First Amendment, who do not wish to see their Catholic brethren forced to pay for something in direct opposition to their theology. Big government is forcing Catholic individuals, hospitals and businesses to violate their religious obligations.
Another provision hotly opposed by conservatives in the ObamaCare bill is the issue of publicly funded abortions. The CT Mirror reports, “Starting in 2014, all health plans nationwide must cover certain essential health benefits, and each state will determine how far those minimum levels of coverage will go.” Already, some states have determined that abortion is an “essential health benefit” and have included them in the services that Americans will be forced to pay for through their insurance company premiums. Despite the fact that it is almost always an elective procedure (barring the rare times that they are performed to save the life of the mother), it is an incredible overreach of government power to mandate that Americans pay for a procedure that half consider against their beliefs. Nevertheless, these self-described small-government Republican women seem to believe that it is the role of the government to force their fellow Americans pay for their elective procedures, despite any moral or religious objections they might have.
This ad is yet another in a series of attempts from the Obama campaign to attempt to divert attention from the economy and the failed record of this administration on everything it has touched. It’ll be interesting to see if this tactic will succeed in distracting Americans from mounting debt, stalled unemployment, and an Iranian regime bent on nuclear weapons. Somehow, I doubt it.
While I totally am against the leftists in Obamaland, I do not believe that the first amendment is violated by having ALL recipients of health care pay for some items they do not believe in. My God, they serve ham and pork and traif fish to school children in some school programs. We pave the roads in front of non tax paying Catholic Churches at our non-Catholic expense. This kind of thing goes on in a million different ways. The hullabaloo that religious nuts are making about this is losing many women, and men, voters who do not like Obama care or anything about Obama. Those nuts could put Obama back in office for another miserable four years. That is the main reason that I refer to them as nuts. They do not know when to stop asking for more and be satisfied with half a loaf.
Gee, I wonder what Stupak and the Blue Dog Democrats think about th promise that ObamaCare would never be used to fund abortions. Did they think Obama was lying then or was it just cover for them to bow to the Pelosi pressure?
As hubby said to me the other night: He's going to run on Roe v. Wade?!?!?!?! n nRoe v. Wade and I'll raise taxes on the rich. Sounds like a great platform for re-election, no?
I think all Romney and Ryan really need to run on is – we are broke – there are no jobs and Obama is an amateur.